Originally Posted by pancing

Get a garbage bag, get some industrial paint stripper, use a chip brush to brush on the paint stripper on the wheel cover with garbage bag.
Clean it off, scrape/sand or repeat stripping process.
get excess stripper off with degreaser or ISP 95%
Clean with Trisodium phosphate and HOT water, distilled if you can.
Fill rashes with body filler or epoxy.
Sand with 100.
Tack everything up with tack cloth.
Follow directions on can with product below, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY, esp the flash time and don't rush.
2 coats of primer need 2 Coats of silver paint and 2-3 coats of gloss lacquer.
If you do this slowly and correctly you wont have to correct with sand paper and polishing.

Make sure you're inside with low humidity with garage door cracked.
WEAR PPE (P100 RESPIRATOR, NOT MASK IS A MUST) Full mask if you can, this is some nasty, nasty stuff.
Wear gloves, this stuff is nasty, Cleans with gasoline.


Wurth, has the exact silver that comes on our cars. Get wurth etch primer, GERMAN Wheel silver and wurth GLOSS LACQUER.
https://www.autogeek.net/german-whee...ation-kit.html get the 3 cans i mentioned in this kit.
Takes about 2 days to do all 4 wheels.
1 day for stripping/prep
1 day for paint/clear

Originally Posted by Dingo

Hey mate, thanks for that, I honestly would rather pay a proper place to do this job! I found a wheel refinishing place in town that quoted me $600nzd to take the tyres off, strip, repaint and put the tyres back on! I drop them off on Monday and pick them up on friday!

Originally Posted by pancing

Get a garbage bag, get some industrial paint stripper, use a chip brush to brush on the paint stripper on the wheel cover with garbage bag.
Clean it off, scrape/sand or repeat stripping process.
get excess stripper off with degreaser or ISP 95%
Clean with Trisodium phosphate and HOT water, distilled if you can.
Fill rashes with body filler or epoxy.
Sand with 100.
Tack everything up with tack cloth.
Follow directions on can with product below, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY, esp the flash time and don't rush.
2 coats of primer need 2 Coats of silver paint and 2-3 coats of gloss lacquer.
If you do this slowly and correctly you wont have to correct with sand paper and polishing.

Make sure you're inside with low humidity with garage door cracked.
WEAR PPE (P100 RESPIRATOR, NOT MASK IS A MUST) Full mask if you can, this is some nasty, nasty stuff.
Wear gloves, this stuff is nasty, Cleans with gasoline.


Wurth, has the exact silver that comes on our cars. Get wurth etch primer, GERMAN Wheel silver and wurth GLOSS LACQUER.
https://www.autogeek.net/german-whee...ation-kit.html get the 3 cans i mentioned in this kit.
Takes about 2 days to do all 4 wheels.
1 day for stripping/prep
1 day for paint/clear

Originally Posted by 2fcknfst

That is a helluva lot of work versus bead/magnesium blasting.

Originally Posted by pancing

It seems like a lot but it really isnt, theres just a lot of waiting for things to happen.

Originally Posted by 2fcknfst

A couple years ago a friend of mine let me on his bead blaster to strip a set of RX7-R1 wheels. His system was loaded up with magnesium (something), so it was softer than the aluminum substrate I was blasting against - I got to say, the end finish was sublime, beautiful and smoothish, with only the slightest texture feel to it.

When the paint went on, they were perfect. I understand that another beautiful finish ready for paint blasting media is walnut shells.